Yes yes, American Chopper (Which is actually entertaining) and Hot Rod (Which is duller than watching paint dry) may not be overly specific about the engineering but you're kind of ignoring the other 22 hours of programming they have every day. I rather enjoy American Hot Rod, and you have to realize they aren't engineers on that show but artists. Shows about artists are dull, but those guys are fucking hilarious. And at the end of the show, when it comes together, they've got a bitchin piece of mechanical art.
But this isn't my point. I watch Discovery channel as much or more often than any other channel. They have lots of really neat shows that are rather informative. Shows about how stuff is made is informative and visually pleasing (All the cool mechanical processes and such), Fronteirs of Construction, Monster Machines, and so on and so forth. These are much more about engineering than Hot Rod and Chopper are, but they all definitely fall under that niche that Discovery channel serves.
My favorite show is called Daily Planet, but I don't know if it's on outside of Canada, or if we have a specifically Canadian version. This show is cool because it's a daily news program about the geekiest stuff. Latest robot research, animal behaviour studies, NASA study results, latest JPL finding on mars via rovers etc...
So don't go off spouting about how Discovery channel is Soaping it up with shows about drama (Chopper), because that one happens to be highly entertaining. They also have shows that are extremely geeky, i.e. How they built this suspension bridge in remote ass turkmenistan or something.
The reason Mythbusters is successful is because it bridges a happy medium, the guys are obviously geeks, but the show doesn't beat you over the head with technical details, and this opens it up to a much wider audience.
In Summary, remeber this is a 24 hour network, and has boatloads of programming that gives most engineers wet dreams, they also happen to have some primetime shows that are mass-appeal based. American Chopper and Monster Garage are terrific examples of drama meets engineering (Or as I argue in Choppers case, Mechanical Art), and that's ok. The more money discovery channel makes, the higher quality programming they will have.
I do hope that they don't start to ignore the nerds that do like their geeked out shows, but as I said, with 24 hours a day of shows you have ample room for both.
Completely offtopic but, I remember the UO launch fo Japanese servers vividly. They had plans to get people to join, including instant skills and free gold.
This quickly backfired.
Not only was the server PACKED, but murderes and griefers ran rampant, and it was very easy to happen upon, oh 500,000 gold. And in UO that is impossible to carry. So suddenly I found myself in the midst of a Japanese-American war where everyone was slaughtering eachother, there was gold everywhere, and it was impossible to drag it to your bank. You were effectively stuck in one place with that much gold, and one hell of an easy target.
I amassed and lost several small fortunes that day. It was quite fucking hilarious, as well. OSI certainly learned their lesson that day and the servers soon got wiped into oblivion and got the clean start they should've had in the first place.
You mods are going to get meta-moderated into oblivion. This post should be labelled as insightful as I'm sure he's speaking of the far superior ESDF layout.
I'm not kidding, either. WASD gives you quick access to maybe 8 keys, 10 if you're stretchy, 4 more if you count number keys and more if you count shift control and alt. ESDF on the other hand gives you access to 11 keys, non stretching, T G and B with minor stretching, an even wider band of numbers, and all the shift keys.
This "fancy gaming keyboard"? A measly 13 keys (as pictured) and that's binding crouch to C and not Ctrl. This is, again, ignoring the number keys.
In none of these layouts am I counting ~ or Tab or function keys. Quite simply? If you want a better gaming keyboard move on from WASD, it's been dead for years.
A count to simplify things: (This includes caps lock, Tab, easily reached number keys, the Tilde[~], function keys, but not the windows key which I'm forced to pop-out during most games.) WASD: 25 (really caps lock shouldn't count but I'm humouring it, it's lonely) ESDF: 28 (I stretch to Y and H, but not N which could make this 29) Idiot "Gam1ng k3yb04rd": 20 (not counting 'goals tab', like I fucking need it spelled out for me)
A little side anecdote on how funny and stupid people are: I have my counter-strike layout on ESDF and every function moved over just one key, and not one of my friends can wrap their heads around it. I tell them, use ESDF! I get blank stares. I say, "Ok, put your fingers on ESDF and then pretend you're still using WASD, everything is in the same relative position." I get blank stares. A game like counter-strike doesn't need all those additional keys, but games like Tribes 2 do. (Certainly WoW and Sims[not THE sims, flight sims] and Mechwarrior games need almost all 101 keys, but those games are for the hardcore.)
I was going to say I Told You So, but that's just too easy.
Just wait till the Terminator gene cross pollinates into our food chain and I'm left with no choice but to KILL the inventors.
You call it a threat, I call it a promise. I knew, from day one, it was a huge fucking mistake to fuck with our food supply like this. I can say I Told You So all I want, though, and we'll still all starve to death thanks to some greedy ass corporate asswipe pigs.
You're officially whipped if you use the Royal We and you're not the Queen...
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I saw this today and got rid of it as fast as I fucking could.
I use Gmail specifically becuase it _DOESN'T_ bother me with annoying fucking doodads like this.
So thanks, but no thanks.
If you've used your computer for a good length of time, say over a year, you should be familiar with how fast it does things and what is or isn't normal.
Like the Parent, I ran my Win98SE machine completely unsecured by third party software and jacked straight into my cable modem. Never got pwned once. Now, maybe I can thank my ISP for that, but who knows.
What I do know is that virus scanners are very lame, as they take resources. As a gamer this is inexcuseable. However, viruses and malware take even more resources, so you should start to notice things going slower than they should. It's only when I noticed adverse system performance that I would boot up my virus scanner or adware remover.
This win98se install is going on 6 years old, having only suffered occasional reinstalls. (And if you install it right you can reinstall from windows/options/cabs) I've never understood the apparent myth of windows machines slowing with time, as I just found decent task manager replacesments (like Security Task Manager, a shareware of which can be found at tucows.com) and RAM decloggers(Dachsund software's Hare is my choice) were able to keep my system in the green.
Personally, Security Task Manager has been a godsend. If the standard windows task manager could kill and quarantine processes like that no windows machine would ever be pwned.
So, to the soldier I suggest Security Task Manager, and frankly, I don't think you need to listen to the alarmists here (All windows haters and definitely _not_ windows users) that say "OMG DONT BROWSE OR THEYLL GET J00 MAAAN" because if you boot to a trustworthy homepage (yahoo google slashdot etc...) and surf to another trustworthy page (tucows) you should be fine. Do the updates first anyways, but don't surf scared. Oh, and don't run internet explorer, cuz if you do you're already dead in the water.
Homey, regardless of my brain development, had you said this to my face
If someone who is relatively young (i.e., under, say, 25-30) is reading this and thinks I'm full of crap, then you're not qualified to have an opinion. Your brain hasn't finished developing yet. Sorry.
I would fucking knock your overweight ass into next week. I'd also stay around long enough for the police to show up so I could explain myself. Lucky for you, you only have the balls to say this from behind a keyboard.
I wonder, have you ever approached my contemporaries and engaged them respectfully as to the volume of their voice? As it's a free country you have no business in _what_ they say, but who's to deny someone who respectfully asks you only to lower the volume. Perhaps some would, others may even tell you to fuck off, but even that is not license for random aural invasion.
And while we're on the subject, who is actually at fault for society's current situation? Who's to blame for our crushing debt and rampant tyranical government? The politicians? No, that's silly, politicians do what politicians do. To not see our current situation coming would be folly. The media? Puh-lease, they don't even hide the fact that they only care about t3h moneh. Nope, it was the 40 somethings. You guys were all 100% fucking complacent, and you all have blood on your hands.
In closing, Bush is over 40. So was Hitler. And Osama! And now that I think about it, probably every single war criminal on record is over 40. Perhaps I should deploy devices that stop you crazy old plunderers from working your hardest together to destroy _MY_ future???
The only threats I see are podgy old farts like you, so weak in will that you've already given up at a relatively young age. "Fuck ideals, give me a mini-van and 2 McLifes." I still believe in the planet you fuckers are doing your best to loot and destroy, and I plan on doing my best to stop all the 40+ from careening us towards a most unpleasant fate. Teenagers at the mall... _TALKING?!_ You are such a pussy.
In short, get fucked. You're just gonna brush this off anyways. "Damn kids wouldn't know reality if it bit them," Right?
GP is so right. "Treat teens with about the same respect you reserve for a mosquito and wonder why they go around shooting each other... Nothing to do with the increasing contempt modern society shows for both the very young and the very old....
Tell you what, stop selling me 5 episodes on a DVD for 25 bucks and you've got a deal. For example, Gundam Seed sells for that, yet I can download fan subs and not get the fuck-tarded translations. Or, I can get someone on Ebay to burn me all 100 eps of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny for 43 bucks. Might not be legal but I'm not going to pay extortionist prices for something that's pretty much has already been counted on to make its money.
Bringing older-ish anime to the States is practically free, especially when you don't dub it, so stop extorting me! Give me reasonable prices on box sets of THE ENTIRE SERIES, or at least a season. I am so sick of 5 dollars an episode.
My fricking cable provider serves anime on demand for a buck 50 a piece but it only lasts 24 hours.
Anyways, the truest perfect marriage is video iPod(or any other video player) plus iTunes style episode buying, and maybe bittorrent to alleviate network strain. If I could have 22 minute episodes in my player in my pocket I'd never avoid taking the bus again. It would be anime time! w00t w00t!
You can play a very neat MMORPG in a modern browser that supports java. I've so far played it on windows with firefox and internet explorer and on Ubuntu 5.10 with firefox.
It's a neat game, there's quite a bit of stuff to do for free. Subscription is cheap and gives you more quests. I don't know if the ads go away for members, but they have their own servers.
I'd like to see some actual numbers on their crime rate as I would be fucking astounded that a place where almost everything _IS_ illegal could actually have less crimes committed per year.
Are you fucking kidding me? These guys are jerks, and you'll realize this when you're sitting in a Thai jail for calling your local politician a fucking moron and religious zealot.
But if you're a sheep that can accept having your entire life dictated to you by a bunch of over-compensating (The angriest are always the smallest, knowwhatImean?) zealots with no control over their own lives, by all means, move to Singapore.
Just don't come crawling back to your consulate begging them to get you out of this hell-hole of a dictatorship. They might just laugh at your audacious stupidity.
Give me liberty or give me death. In Thailand, the latter is more common. What a nice place.
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And then there were clueless people completely unaware of the fact that downloading and saving webcasts has been possible long before Apple even thought about joining the MP3 player market.
People were also doing their own webcasts years before the iPod. So like, could we please stop giving Apple credit for stuff they didn't do? All they did was make it easy even for the dumbest person. And almost everyone on slashdot hates end users (especially those with admin jobs) so why would you cheer their empowerment? That's dangerous behaviour.
So yes, the internet _is_ the new printing press but it's not Apple's fucking lovechild so could we all stop fellating them unnecessarily?
It's no bullshit. Read my post here, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166472&cid=138 85558 it explains how I gave a 5.10 install disk to a man with brain injuries who was able to install it(By himself) without a single hitch. Everything worked out of the box.
Honestly, can any other distro say that like Ubuntu can now? As for Windows, those morons don't even have a decent driver base that Windows Update can query and download from so it's their own damn fault you can't detect new stuff.
Now, I know many bosses seem more brain-injured than this guy actually is, but it really is quite an accomplishment that the Ubuntu team should be really proud of. If my office hadn't already shelled for a bundle of 2k licenses before I got here, we'd all be running Ubuntu.
The faster a formula 1 car goes, the more downforce it generates. A Formula 1 car can also be tweaked to provide extreme downforce. Also, the number I've heard is it generates enough downforce to go upside down once it's at 100 mph+.
Now, if you had a long enough and big enough tube you could easily get the car going to 150 mph, and at that point I don't see the problem with driving upside down. The car is going to be getting pushed onto the surface it rides on, regardless of orientation, and it will have the capability to accelerate, which gives more downforce.
Instead of losing grip it will increase grip.
Also, Formula 1 cars are very delicately balanced, you want downforce in turns, but not on straights. In this hypothetical scenario you can juice the downforce as high as you want, vastly increasing its grip potential over the race setup.
So don't be a hater. (I'd really like to see this myth proven!And not in a wind-tunnel you ponces)
Oh I sincerely agree. You know the number 1 thing they never replicated that really helped the speed? The grenade launcher. It's timing, range, and explosion upon hitting a target was awesome. Wait for 6 guys to get in a shotgun war and just pop 6 in. Instant gibs.
Quake was definitely the first great multiplayer experience. I remember as a snot-nosed brat of 12 shouting with glee over a 56k modem (What a terrible memory!), and logging onto my ISP's server. Good ole quake.sonic.net. A year or two later I was at a superbowl party hosted by a husband and wife, the husband was my dad's friend and the wife worked at Sonic ths isp. Put that many geeks in the room and talk eventually shifts to video games, and quickly to the craze of the time which was still quake. I inquired to all their aliases and they found out mine, and they had the most hilarious expressions on their faces when they realized they had been getting owned for months by a 12 year old.
Best. Day. Ever.
I, for one, can't stand the hordes of uninformed who insist Macs don't get viruses or malware because "the guy at the computer store said so". Of course he did, darling, he's trying to sell you some of his most expensive models. So what if the Mac is slightly more resilient to worms, idiot users can still execute unfriendly code. And we all know that Apple is trying its absolute hardest to embrace the retarded user and make him feel comfortable clicking _anything_.
Only the retarded users could see Apple as a real option anyways. I'm still waiting for someone to give me a bonefide reason to switch to Apple that isn't just 'look and feel'.
Seriously, apple.slashdot.org, I challenge you to give me one, just ONE, good reason to switch to a Macintosh. Keep in mind I'm not an idiot user so safety from viruses and malware is not a problem, I don't execute untrustable code or run stupidities like Outlook Express or ActiveX.
Design? Umm, if that makes it go faster. Look and feel? Any modern OS can be made to look like any other OS so that's kind of canned. Superior hardware? Maybe back in the day, but with the switch to x86 I've got even less reason to overpay for the hardware.
OS superiority? For what? Does it really run that Adobe suite faster than my self-rolled x86 machine? I'm literally begging to be shut up and corrected, please give me something.
The only reason I've got is that not many people code malware for the platform, but that's security by obscurity isn't it? I trust my safe computing habits more than I trust a hacker to not care about pwning my box. As soon as someone figures out how to kill Macs by virus or malware, and has good reason to do it, they will do it.
I bet you feel really clever using this stupid word in front of the people you're patronizing but might I be so bold as to suggest you use PICNIC in the future? It's much easier to integrate it seamlessly into a harmless sentence, even if the moronic humon is within earshot. (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)
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It's called Ubuntu 5.10. It comes with GIMP. I gave a disk to a brain damaged man and he did it himself, no phone calls.
I'm not even lying.
Yes yes, American Chopper (Which is actually entertaining) and Hot Rod (Which is duller than watching paint dry) may not be overly specific about the engineering but you're kind of ignoring the other 22 hours of programming they have every day. I rather enjoy American Hot Rod, and you have to realize they aren't engineers on that show but artists. Shows about artists are dull, but those guys are fucking hilarious. And at the end of the show, when it comes together, they've got a bitchin piece of mechanical art.
But this isn't my point. I watch Discovery channel as much or more often than any other channel. They have lots of really neat shows that are rather informative. Shows about how stuff is made is informative and visually pleasing (All the cool mechanical processes and such), Fronteirs of Construction, Monster Machines, and so on and so forth. These are much more about engineering than Hot Rod and Chopper are, but they all definitely fall under that niche that Discovery channel serves.
My favorite show is called Daily Planet, but I don't know if it's on outside of Canada, or if we have a specifically Canadian version. This show is cool because it's a daily news program about the geekiest stuff. Latest robot research, animal behaviour studies, NASA study results, latest JPL finding on mars via rovers etc...
So don't go off spouting about how Discovery channel is Soaping it up with shows about drama (Chopper), because that one happens to be highly entertaining. They also have shows that are extremely geeky, i.e. How they built this suspension bridge in remote ass turkmenistan or something.
The reason Mythbusters is successful is because it bridges a happy medium, the guys are obviously geeks, but the show doesn't beat you over the head with technical details, and this opens it up to a much wider audience.
In Summary, remeber this is a 24 hour network, and has boatloads of programming that gives most engineers wet dreams, they also happen to have some primetime shows that are mass-appeal based. American Chopper and Monster Garage are terrific examples of drama meets engineering (Or as I argue in Choppers case, Mechanical Art), and that's ok. The more money discovery channel makes, the higher quality programming they will have.
I do hope that they don't start to ignore the nerds that do like their geeked out shows, but as I said, with 24 hours a day of shows you have ample room for both.
Completely offtopic but, I remember the UO launch fo Japanese servers vividly. They had plans to get people to join, including instant skills and free gold.
This quickly backfired.
Not only was the server PACKED, but murderes and griefers ran rampant, and it was very easy to happen upon, oh 500,000 gold. And in UO that is impossible to carry. So suddenly I found myself in the midst of a Japanese-American war where everyone was slaughtering eachother, there was gold everywhere, and it was impossible to drag it to your bank. You were effectively stuck in one place with that much gold, and one hell of an easy target.
I amassed and lost several small fortunes that day. It was quite fucking hilarious, as well. OSI certainly learned their lesson that day and the servers soon got wiped into oblivion and got the clean start they should've had in the first place.
You mods are going to get meta-moderated into oblivion. This post should be labelled as insightful as I'm sure he's speaking of the far superior ESDF layout.
I'm not kidding, either. WASD gives you quick access to maybe 8 keys, 10 if you're stretchy, 4 more if you count number keys and more if you count shift control and alt. ESDF on the other hand gives you access to 11 keys, non stretching, T G and B with minor stretching, an even wider band of numbers, and all the shift keys.
This "fancy gaming keyboard"? A measly 13 keys (as pictured) and that's binding crouch to C and not Ctrl. This is, again, ignoring the number keys.
In none of these layouts am I counting ~ or Tab or function keys. Quite simply? If you want a better gaming keyboard move on from WASD, it's been dead for years.
A count to simplify things: (This includes caps lock, Tab, easily reached number keys, the Tilde[~], function keys, but not the windows key which I'm forced to pop-out during most games.)
WASD: 25 (really caps lock shouldn't count but I'm humouring it, it's lonely)
ESDF: 28 (I stretch to Y and H, but not N which could make this 29)
Idiot "Gam1ng k3yb04rd": 20 (not counting 'goals tab', like I fucking need it spelled out for me)
A little side anecdote on how funny and stupid people are: I have my counter-strike layout on ESDF and every function moved over just one key, and not one of my friends can wrap their heads around it. I tell them, use ESDF! I get blank stares. I say, "Ok, put your fingers on ESDF and then pretend you're still using WASD, everything is in the same relative position." I get blank stares. A game like counter-strike doesn't need all those additional keys, but games like Tribes 2 do. (Certainly WoW and Sims[not THE sims, flight sims] and Mechwarrior games need almost all 101 keys, but those games are for the hardcore.)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these bady boys!
(Had to, sorry.)
I was going to say I Told You So, but that's just too easy.
Just wait till the Terminator gene cross pollinates into our food chain and I'm left with no choice but to KILL the inventors.
You call it a threat, I call it a promise. I knew, from day one, it was a huge fucking mistake to fuck with our food supply like this. I can say I Told You So all I want, though, and we'll still all starve to death thanks to some greedy ass corporate asswipe pigs.
Isn't science grand?!
These things sound like an unholy union between Furby and those evil little fuckers from the Gremlins movies.
You're officially whipped if you use the Royal We and you're not the Queen...
I saw this today and got rid of it as fast as I fucking could. I use Gmail specifically becuase it _DOESN'T_ bother me with annoying fucking doodads like this. So thanks, but no thanks.
If you've used your computer for a good length of time, say over a year, you should be familiar with how fast it does things and what is or isn't normal.
Like the Parent, I ran my Win98SE machine completely unsecured by third party software and jacked straight into my cable modem. Never got pwned once. Now, maybe I can thank my ISP for that, but who knows.
What I do know is that virus scanners are very lame, as they take resources. As a gamer this is inexcuseable. However, viruses and malware take even more resources, so you should start to notice things going slower than they should. It's only when I noticed adverse system performance that I would boot up my virus scanner or adware remover.
This win98se install is going on 6 years old, having only suffered occasional reinstalls. (And if you install it right you can reinstall from windows/options/cabs) I've never understood the apparent myth of windows machines slowing with time, as I just found decent task manager replacesments (like Security Task Manager, a shareware of which can be found at tucows.com) and RAM decloggers(Dachsund software's Hare is my choice) were able to keep my system in the green.
Personally, Security Task Manager has been a godsend. If the standard windows task manager could kill and quarantine processes like that no windows machine would ever be pwned.
So, to the soldier I suggest Security Task Manager, and frankly, I don't think you need to listen to the alarmists here (All windows haters and definitely _not_ windows users) that say "OMG DONT BROWSE OR THEYLL GET J00 MAAAN" because if you boot to a trustworthy homepage (yahoo google slashdot etc...) and surf to another trustworthy page (tucows) you should be fine. Do the updates first anyways, but don't surf scared. Oh, and don't run internet explorer, cuz if you do you're already dead in the water.
I would fucking knock your overweight ass into next week. I'd also stay around long enough for the police to show up so I could explain myself. Lucky for you, you only have the balls to say this from behind a keyboard.
I wonder, have you ever approached my contemporaries and engaged them respectfully as to the volume of their voice? As it's a free country you have no business in _what_ they say, but who's to deny someone who respectfully asks you only to lower the volume. Perhaps some would, others may even tell you to fuck off, but even that is not license for random aural invasion.
And while we're on the subject, who is actually at fault for society's current situation? Who's to blame for our crushing debt and rampant tyranical government? The politicians? No, that's silly, politicians do what politicians do. To not see our current situation coming would be folly. The media? Puh-lease, they don't even hide the fact that they only care about t3h moneh. Nope, it was the 40 somethings. You guys were all 100% fucking complacent, and you all have blood on your hands.
In closing, Bush is over 40. So was Hitler. And Osama! And now that I think about it, probably every single war criminal on record is over 40. Perhaps I should deploy devices that stop you crazy old plunderers from working your hardest together to destroy _MY_ future???
The only threats I see are podgy old farts like you, so weak in will that you've already given up at a relatively young age. "Fuck ideals, give me a mini-van and 2 McLifes." I still believe in the planet you fuckers are doing your best to loot and destroy, and I plan on doing my best to stop all the 40+ from careening us towards a most unpleasant fate. Teenagers at the mall... _TALKING?!_ You are such a pussy.
In short, get fucked. You're just gonna brush this off anyways. "Damn kids wouldn't know reality if it bit them," Right?
GP is so right. "Treat teens with about the same respect you reserve for a mosquito and wonder why they go around shooting each other... Nothing to do with the increasing contempt modern society shows for both the very young and the very old.
Idiot."
Tell you what, stop selling me 5 episodes on a DVD for 25 bucks and you've got a deal. For example, Gundam Seed sells for that, yet I can download fan subs and not get the fuck-tarded translations. Or, I can get someone on Ebay to burn me all 100 eps of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny for 43 bucks. Might not be legal but I'm not going to pay extortionist prices for something that's pretty much has already been counted on to make its money.
Bringing older-ish anime to the States is practically free, especially when you don't dub it, so stop extorting me! Give me reasonable prices on box sets of THE ENTIRE SERIES, or at least a season. I am so sick of 5 dollars an episode.
My fricking cable provider serves anime on demand for a buck 50 a piece but it only lasts 24 hours.
Anyways, the truest perfect marriage is video iPod(or any other video player) plus iTunes style episode buying, and maybe bittorrent to alleviate network strain. If I could have 22 minute episodes in my player in my pocket I'd never avoid taking the bus again. It would be anime time! w00t w00t!
You can play a very neat MMORPG in a modern browser that supports java. I've so far played it on windows with firefox and internet explorer and on Ubuntu 5.10 with firefox.
It's a neat game, there's quite a bit of stuff to do for free. Subscription is cheap and gives you more quests. I don't know if the ads go away for members, but they have their own servers.
www.runescape.com give it a shot.
I'd like to see some actual numbers on their crime rate as I would be fucking astounded that a place where almost everything _IS_ illegal could actually have less crimes committed per year.
Are you fucking kidding me? These guys are jerks, and you'll realize this when you're sitting in a Thai jail for calling your local politician a fucking moron and religious zealot.
But if you're a sheep that can accept having your entire life dictated to you by a bunch of over-compensating (The angriest are always the smallest, knowwhatImean?) zealots with no control over their own lives, by all means, move to Singapore.
Just don't come crawling back to your consulate begging them to get you out of this hell-hole of a dictatorship. They might just laugh at your audacious stupidity.
Give me liberty or give me death. In Thailand, the latter is more common. What a nice place.
And then there were clueless people completely unaware of the fact that downloading and saving webcasts has been possible long before Apple even thought about joining the MP3 player market.
People were also doing their own webcasts years before the iPod. So like, could we please stop giving Apple credit for stuff they didn't do? All they did was make it easy even for the dumbest person. And almost everyone on slashdot hates end users (especially those with admin jobs) so why would you cheer their empowerment? That's dangerous behaviour.
So yes, the internet _is_ the new printing press but it's not Apple's fucking lovechild so could we all stop fellating them unnecessarily?
It's no bullshit. Read my post here, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166472&cid=138 85558 it explains how I gave a 5.10 install disk to a man with brain injuries who was able to install it(By himself) without a single hitch. Everything worked out of the box.
Honestly, can any other distro say that like Ubuntu can now? As for Windows, those morons don't even have a decent driver base that Windows Update can query and download from so it's their own damn fault you can't detect new stuff.
Now, I know many bosses seem more brain-injured than this guy actually is, but it really is quite an accomplishment that the Ubuntu team should be really proud of. If my office hadn't already shelled for a bundle of 2k licenses before I got here, we'd all be running Ubuntu.
Isn't it just proof the UK has some of the least-informed and competent computer using populations in the world?
Getting pwned is never a good thing, no matter what spin machine processes the data.
The faster a formula 1 car goes, the more downforce it generates. A Formula 1 car can also be tweaked to provide extreme downforce. Also, the number I've heard is it generates enough downforce to go upside down once it's at 100 mph+.
Now, if you had a long enough and big enough tube you could easily get the car going to 150 mph, and at that point I don't see the problem with driving upside down. The car is going to be getting pushed onto the surface it rides on, regardless of orientation, and it will have the capability to accelerate, which gives more downforce.
Instead of losing grip it will increase grip.
Also, Formula 1 cars are very delicately balanced, you want downforce in turns, but not on straights. In this hypothetical scenario you can juice the downforce as high as you want, vastly increasing its grip potential over the race setup.
So don't be a hater. (I'd really like to see this myth proven!And not in a wind-tunnel you ponces)
Problem: Dumb ass parents. Solution: Sue a fantasy game maker? Sue yourself, idiot.
Umm... Awards show? I thought it was an excuse to show some more T&A. Isn't that what spike does?
Nevermind the fact spike is mtv's bastard lovechild and trying harder to sell records and drop names than honour videogames.
It's not that they don't get it, they don't _want_ to get it. And apparently their audience doesn't either.
I've been watching that movie for over a decade and I still don't get that joke...
Oh I sincerely agree. You know the number 1 thing they never replicated that really helped the speed? The grenade launcher. It's timing, range, and explosion upon hitting a target was awesome. Wait for 6 guys to get in a shotgun war and just pop 6 in. Instant gibs. Quake was definitely the first great multiplayer experience. I remember as a snot-nosed brat of 12 shouting with glee over a 56k modem (What a terrible memory!), and logging onto my ISP's server. Good ole quake.sonic.net. A year or two later I was at a superbowl party hosted by a husband and wife, the husband was my dad's friend and the wife worked at Sonic ths isp. Put that many geeks in the room and talk eventually shifts to video games, and quickly to the craze of the time which was still quake. I inquired to all their aliases and they found out mine, and they had the most hilarious expressions on their faces when they realized they had been getting owned for months by a 12 year old. Best. Day. Ever.
Well put.
I, for one, can't stand the hordes of uninformed who insist Macs don't get viruses or malware because "the guy at the computer store said so". Of course he did, darling, he's trying to sell you some of his most expensive models. So what if the Mac is slightly more resilient to worms, idiot users can still execute unfriendly code. And we all know that Apple is trying its absolute hardest to embrace the retarded user and make him feel comfortable clicking _anything_.
Only the retarded users could see Apple as a real option anyways. I'm still waiting for someone to give me a bonefide reason to switch to Apple that isn't just 'look and feel'.
Seriously, apple.slashdot.org, I challenge you to give me one, just ONE, good reason to switch to a Macintosh. Keep in mind I'm not an idiot user so safety from viruses and malware is not a problem, I don't execute untrustable code or run stupidities like Outlook Express or ActiveX.
Design? Umm, if that makes it go faster. Look and feel? Any modern OS can be made to look like any other OS so that's kind of canned. Superior hardware? Maybe back in the day, but with the switch to x86 I've got even less reason to overpay for the hardware.
OS superiority? For what? Does it really run that Adobe suite faster than my self-rolled x86 machine? I'm literally begging to be shut up and corrected, please give me something.
The only reason I've got is that not many people code malware for the platform, but that's security by obscurity isn't it? I trust my safe computing habits more than I trust a hacker to not care about pwning my box. As soon as someone figures out how to kill Macs by virus or malware, and has good reason to do it, they will do it.
It's really only a matter of time.
I bet you feel really clever using this stupid word in front of the people you're patronizing but might I be so bold as to suggest you use PICNIC in the future? It's much easier to integrate it seamlessly into a harmless sentence, even if the moronic humon is within earshot. (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)
10 spam messages a second.
I've never been that productive.